I wonder how the Communications Minister can get away with such a total falsehood ('FM stations aren't allowed to broadcast news even in the most democratic countries', #257). FM stations broadcast news all the time. All over the world. In the US a major source of alternative and progressive radical news is low-power FM stations all over the country. The Communications Minister is woefully ignorant or a deliberate prevaricator. In either case, he obviously isn't the man for the job.

Hilary Dirlam,
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. I am not surprised at the education level of this minister. If you censor your own country just to keep in power it leads to such ridiculous statements. Nepal has a lot of excellent professional journalism. Every government in Nepal should be proud of this fact.

From my own experience as an inhabitant of a very democratic country I can tell your minister that press freedom is part of the lifestyle of a democratic country. Irrespective of how you spread this news, either through newspapers, FM stations, television or through peaceful demonstrations.

Leopold H?glinger,
Nussdorf, Austria